Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche sur Mer

Georg Mayer, specialist in Onychophorans and Evo-Devo, will present a little of is present work in these very charismatic invertebrates.
For more info please check the website: http://www.onychophora.com/mayer.htm

Le nouvel axe Physique du vivant a pour but de faire dialoguer physiciens, mathématiciens et biologistes de Nice et sa région. Il s’agit d’aider au lancement de nouvelles collaborations, de proposer de nouvelles techniques expérimentales: optiques, mécaniques… ou théoriques: modèles physiques, méthodes de résolutions mathématiques.

La Génomique du plancton et Tara Oceans
Conférences à l'Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche sur Mer,
Port de La Darse

From next week we have the chance to host Sandie and Bernie Degnan (http://www.degnanlabs.info), who are visiting our Unit as part of their sabbatical. They will be around for three months so I'm sure everybody will have the opportunity to interact with them.

Peter Godfrey Smith , Professor of Philosphy at the City University of New York,  will be one of the keynote  speakers in our "Convergences" Workshop on  Individuality in Biology and Philosophy next Monday and Tuedsay  (  http://lbdv.obs-vlfr.fr/convergence/index.html ) .He has offered to give  an additional seminar on a different topic at the OOV on Wednesday 9th  September : "Do octopuses use projectiles in conspecific interactions?’."

Le XIXe congrès de l’Association Française de Cytométrie (AFC) se déroulera les 18, 19 et 20 novembre 2015 au Palais des Congrès d’Antibes Juan-les-Pins.

Participation du LBDV au 6th meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Development Biology à Uppsala (Suède).

Participation du LBDV au 8th international tunicate meeting au Japon.
The 8th international tunicate meeting will be held July 13-17, 2015 at Aomori City Cultural Hall, Aomori, Japan. The International Tunicate Meeting is the major scientific gathering of tunicate researchers with diverse interests, expertizes and experiences in tunicate biology and its related field from around the world, and is regularly held biennially in Europe, North America or Japan. The meeting is organized with plenary sessions and poster sessions.

“Individuality and immortality : lessons from organisms with complex life cycles” - Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur mer, 7th and 8th September 2015

The workshop aims to promote discussion to explore the concepts around the themes of individuality and immortality. It will include presentations from international specialists from the worlds of Philosophy and Biology, mixed with presentations from INDIBIO project participants and their collaborators.